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Originally posted by opinionsarefree
How does a quake of 8.3 cause a smaller tsunami than a smaller quake of 7.8? I beieve the tsunami that killed 230,000 people was caused by a quake smaller than this one. How does that work? Is it because the quake is closer or further from the surface?